Learn how scientists used AI and X-ray technology to digitally open a Roman scroll that was burned and buried during the ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which were carbonized when the villa ...

Scientists have deciphered Greek letters from a Herculaneum scroll that was burned by the explosion of Vesuvius 2,000 years ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an ancient Greek Epicurean ...

For more than 250 years, scholars and scientists have worked on many ways to decipher the scrolls, the majority of which are ...

A groundbreaking project seeks to unlock the secrets of ancient Roman philosophy with the help of cutting-edge technology and ...

The Getty Villa was designed and constructed as a full-scale replica of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, in what is now southern Italy. From 1974 to 1997, the Villa housed the Getty Museum’s ...

potentially uncovering vast amounts of untapped historical knowledge stored within the Villa of the Papyri. Additionally, a new $100,000 grand prize has been announced for teams capable of ...